On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:55:33AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

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> I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to
> the traditional behvior of "su" (before it was broken in buster).
> 
> "sudo -i" is meant to approximate the behavior of "su -".  Before buster,
> nobody would have used that on a Debian system.  It's horrible.  The
> fact that people are now embracing it as a norm is even worse.

I hear you (well, I read you) and keep your notes in high esteem.

However, I found myself more often doing "su -" back then (TM), so I
gravitated quite naturally towards "sudo -i". Differently wired brain?
Different contexts? Plain incompetence? (Mine: in things shell, I'm
the incompetent among both of us :-)

Cheers
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t

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